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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 2d

How is it that Michael Mann’s Miami Vice is considered a failure when it’s a masterpiece?! The digital grain is just sublime

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 4d

I ended up on swifty TikTok and the comments are absolutely killing me. "9th grade slam poetry", [a photo of boiled chicken], "album for cop wives", "If Taylor wrote this that's bad, if ChatGPT wrote this that's worse, and if Travis wrote this I'm actually kind of proud of him".

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations!!!

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 5d

So glad you liked it too. It is full of good ideas and I like the sincerity too

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 5d

How is AI changing the nature of scams? @lanalanalana.bsky.social & @alicetiara.bsky.social spoke to @alixdunn.com on @themaybe.org to explain how AI automates & scales the work already being done in massive, exploitative “cybercrime compounds” around the world. www.themaybe.org/podcast/gotc...

The Maybe

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 5d

Boredom is an underrated affect as an impulse for critical work. Jeroen de Kloet is not afraid to say he's bored @jeroendekloet.bsky.social and this is a good thing! Take a read of his important and personal call to revisit creativity, resilience, and else:

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone writing a book on platforms right now, there's new series for you! Edited by some of the finest people (and editors!) in platform studies, consider publishing with Platform Societies:
link.springer.com/series/60334

Platform Societies

This new Palgrave series recognises the need for a book series dedicated to critical and cutting-edge research on digital platforms’ potential and power to ...

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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · 16d

A longish thread to announce that the Themed Issue "Digital Platform Economies: Value from Data?" is now fully available online
"https://journals.sagepub.com/topic/collections-pns/pns-1-digital_platform_economies_value_from_data/pns

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 6d

I’m excited this venue for publishing exists, and Adrian Athique is hands down the best editor I’ve worked with - writer too I should add

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone writing a book on platforms right now, there's new series for you! Edited by some of the finest people (and editors!) in platform studies, consider publishing with Platform Societies:
link.springer.com/series/60334

Platform Societies

This new Palgrave series recognises the need for a book series dedicated to critical and cutting-edge research on digital platforms’ potential and power to ...

link.springer.com

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 17d

If you want to ignore the news for a moment and read something whip smart that teaches you about Alipay’s global interoperability, allowing Kakao users to pay in Japan and much else - read this 👇

Niels van Doorn @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social · 22d

I am very pleased to see this super insightful piece by @jingwangnyu.bsky.social out in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social! It examines how the “productization of APIs allows Alipay+ to extend its platform logic into global financial infrastructures.

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 17d

October 2024, a time when a different world was possible

Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 17d

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Jamie Peck @jamiepeck.bsky.social · 20d

Our pitch for constructivist economic geographies - Rachel Phillips, Chris Meulbroek, Jamie Peck, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Constructivist economic geographies - Rachel Phillips, Chris Meulbroek, Jamie Peck, 2025

The paper makes a case for explicitly constructivist approaches and projects in economic geography. Constructivism names and problematizes the relationship betw...

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 17d

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia

A grainy screenshot of the sidebar of the desktop version of Goodreads. It says:

RECOMMENDATIONS:
Because you enjoyed A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune:
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible...

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Sam Bellamy @sambdesk.bsky.social · 17d

New at Fight the Fire:

Geez, Canada, what's your problem?
Trump's ambassador pretends he doesn't understand why our neighbors are being so 'mean and nasty'

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Geez, Canada, what's your problem?

Trump's ambassador pretends he doesn't understand why our neighbors are being so 'mean and nasty'

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks for tagging me Niels definitely very interested in this!

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Niels van Doorn @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social · 22d

I am very pleased to see this super insightful piece by @jingwangnyu.bsky.social out in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social! It examines how the “productization of APIs allows Alipay+ to extend its platform logic into global financial infrastructures.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1177/2976...

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 27d

Actually very uncomplicated. Prices rise, jobs fall, all due to the tariff bonanza. The only complicated thing about it is the guy responsible is not consistent in his TACO

Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · Aug 30

Yes that’s a good summary

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · Aug 30

*Woman not women - apologies for the typo!

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · Aug 30

Readers of Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Women rejoice, there's a compelling new piece interpreting the novel! Linda Flores also gives us what might be the best translation of the title - Homo convenience.

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Reading heterotopian spaces in Murata Sayaka’s Convenience Store Woman

Murata Sayaka’s Convenience Store Woman (Konbini ningen, 2016) portrays Keiko, an unmarried, childless thirty-six-year-old woman and long-time convenience store employee. Aware that her behavior an...

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · Aug 28

How true that is!

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · Aug 28

Or maybe not having a fully functional health care system!

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · Aug 28

A serious and sensitive issue is having massive potholes in the streets that cause accidents - not having people praying in the streets

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · Nov 26

Convened here are @dbyler.bsky.social, @ohalpern.bsky.social, @arminb.bsky.social @melhogan.bsky.social Steven Gonzalez Monserrate, Tung-Hui Hu @susannapaasonen.bsky.social Neta Alexander, Rahul Mukherjee @andretwp.bsky.social Tomasz Hollonek & @mayameme.bsky.social. Lots to think on.

Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · Nov 26

Incredibly excited: In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround is now out!!! 4 years in the making, co-edited by @joshua-neves.bsky.social and me, this OA volume is full of chapters that will make you rethink the oft-used word. Please read & circulate!

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TOD #54 In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround

Theory on Demand #54In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical SurroundEdited by Joshua Neves and Marc SternbergConvenience is the feeling and aspiration that animates

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